Hardware grants in the United Kingdom

Between cycles

Joint UK-Luxembourg collaborative research applications through participating councils.

Between cycles

Funding for Norway-based project co-leads in UK-led research applications.

Between cycles

Flexible funding for strategic engineering and physical sciences research programmes.

Between cycles

Supports Strathclyde community teams building entrepreneurial skills through a practical team challenge program.

Between cycles

Part-funded innovation projects between businesses and academic partners.

Between cycles

Supports Regional EDGE programmes for early-stage Scottish businesses across four regions via local delivery partners.

Between cycles

Funds UK founders starting or growing a young business with a government-backed personal loan and 12 months of mentoring.

Between cycles

Supports women founders with a focused programme of mentorship and investor readiness for startup growth.

Between cycles

Supports scaling Scottish technology businesses with hybrid grant-loan funding and growth recognition.

Closed

Turn a public sector research asset into something a market will pay for.

Closed

Supports early-stage founders from Commonwealth countries with mentoring, masterclasses, and investor-facing acceleration.

Closed

Funding for entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training and venture creation.

Closed

Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.

Closed

Pays UK university ventures, startups and SMEs a share of £150,000 in equity-free cash prizes through a national pitching competition.

Closed

Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.

Closed

Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.

Closed

Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.

Closed

Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.

Closed

Offers non-dilutive financing for United Kingdom firms to scale late-stage innovation when standard debt is unavailable.

Closed

Funds Northern Ireland businesses accessing knowledge-provider expertise through GBP 5K innovation vouchers.

Open

Funds the development and hard technical validation that turns a working cancer research technology into one other laboratories will actually adopt.

Open

Funds proof-of-concept work on a genuinely new tool, assay, platform or instrument for characterising cancer cells or handling biospecimens.

Open

Funds a therapeutic or diagnostic device for the nervous system through prototyping, safety testing, regulatory clearance and a first small clinical study.

Open

Funds next-generation sensors and bioelectronic devices that record behaviour in step with brain recordings, to build models of how the two connect.